This is an analysis of the poem The Circle Game that begins with:
The children on the lawn
joined hand to hand...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb cbdeda fghi jaekal mjF lcbfmeabflbggb X cl gbka jjfmf ffnblana lea ininbg bm l e mi l X geea gjn eiffm bgdgbc canfco fp eimem be fgggqap ibe X lcbeXcjmbn cmXkbfkm fbgmigeXeXbee jkaaqrfqedb feX j qfl keleldeXee nea iiiim ebnemde fiiXprgpi j ll la
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,4,6,3,14,1,2,4,5,8,3,6,2,1,1,2,1,1,4,3,5,6,6,2,5,2,7,3,1,10,8,13,11,3,1,3,10,3,5,7,9,1,2,2,2,2,4,1,11,4,1,3,1,3,3,1,4,9,7,4,9,3,3,5,5,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 1101 1111 111000 01101 110 0101 10010010 1001 11101 10110 111 11010010 111 010101 11011 11010 101010 100 11010 101011 1101100 111101 11101 111 0111 10001 1010101 10001 010101 1011 10 010111 010 10 10111 1 1001 1001 01101010 11110 000100 0100 10100 11 1010101 011001 0101 101001 1111 110101 1110 00100110 1101110 01001 11 11100011 1001001101 0111 1111100 00011 10 1101011 0111 10110 11101 110110010 10110011 1011 11 01100 110011 1 110 0111 11 00110 110 011 1101 111010 0010 01010110 0100010 1101 11010 111100010 101010 0010 0101010 011101 11101 1101 010011 110100 1010111 01010 011 100101 11010 11010 1010101 100001 0111 1010110 0110 0101 110 0101010 0110 01 1001010 101001 0110101 110 1110 1 010001 1101 111 110101 00100100 0111 01011 101010 11101 010111 111 1011 10000 1001110100 011101 01000101 01110 0101 110101 11 01110 01001 110110 0110110 100100010 010010 1101010 01000 0101 110 011010 11111 1010100 1011100 11101 11111 110101 001011100 111111 0111010 010101 11001101 01 111 1110 1 010101 01111101 1100010 0100 1101 101010 101110 11111 110001 11101 0101010 101 1101010 1101 010 110110 111101 01010 111100 100010 01011101 010 10111 1000111 1111 10010 10 0110 100 010 001010 1010010 10011 01011001 111110 1 1010 1 111011 0101 010101 111101 1011111 01010 0100111 11001010 100111 010101 010101 10010100 01010 110100111 0100101 01101 100100 11010 10110 10001010 111111 010 110110 1010110 11 001 1101 001 1001 11110 110011 1010100 1101 1011 001110101 011100 111101 01010 111010 1 1001 0010001 010110 011 01001 10111 0100 1001100 1101 1111 0111001 1111 11 011 1101010 110111 110011 101 1001010 1111 110 1110100 011011 1101100 1111 10110 11101 1101011 0010100 01011011 1011 1110 11010110 10000100 110001 0011 011011 1011 11110 0101 01101 0011 0111 1110 1111 11 0001000100 010110 0101100 1101 11110010 10 10 10110 0111 10010 110110 1010 11010 10
- Amount of stanzas: 69
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 307
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; round, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, the, of, is are repeated.
The author used the same words we, you, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines places, game, mother are repeated).
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- summary of The Circle Game;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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